Objetives:

  1. Make the students competent to describe their school and explain it orally in the English language
  2. Learn new vocabulary and grammar structures
  3. Find information from themselves by talking to people, using the internet, the teacher´s wiki, etc.
  4. Turn the proccess of learning into a process to generate knowledge
  5. Learn to work and share in a group
  6. Record and edit a video
  7. Generate group and cooperative creations
  8. Participate in group work in a constructive way, being respectful in every way (to other people´s ideas, turn-taking, etc.)
  9. Insert the final product in the wiki so other people can see it, benefit and enjoy it
Conceptual Contents:
  1. The Comparative and the Superlative
  2. Present Continuous
  3. Pronuntiation of the comparative and the superlative

Procedural Contents:
  1. Vocabulary on school facilities, subjects, schedule
  2. Looking for the appropriate information around the school in order to develop project
  3. Creation and edition of video

Attitudinal Contents:
  1. Reflection on children who have no access to education
  2. Value what we have and make the most of it. care about our school and its facilities
  3. Participation in all discussions that take place in class(the appropriate way to dress in school, the importance of respecting our school, etc.)
  4. Development of respect and tolerance while working in groups
  5. Development of a certain artistic expresion to record and edit a video
  6. Learning to value computers in class, the need to care for them to work on a daily basis, they are not only to entertain ourselves
  7. Develop a sense of personal achivement in creating something interesting for other students

Methodology:

  1. First we will work on the level of linguistic and cognitive competence the students has, then, we will find out his/her the previous knowledge
  2. We will work on learning hands on, learning something that is paractical and fuctional
  3. Learning to Learn sinc estudents have to solve vocabulary , grammar problems among the resources provided to the group, the necessity to com to an agreement on how to select nfo, decide what to present in the vidseo, respect other people´s opinions, etc
  4. Students will work cooperaively, will also learn from mistakes and will learn from the teacher who is guiding them
  5. The idea is that students reflect on the whole process and learn skills and strategies that can be used in other situations
  6. Groups: individual work, pair work, group and whole group work.

Evaluation Criteria
Vocabulary and grammar (80 points)
There is / there are
Use the present simple accordingly/ positive and negative answers.
Vocabulary referring to school places, subjects, people working at the school: principal, etc.
Talk about prices in cafeteria

Presentation (20 points)
Creativity, places other students have not named, music in video, etc.
Each person will talks about two school facilities minimum
Organization of video

Due date
  • The unit takes place in 8 sesssions of 55 minutes, the video should be finished by the last sesssion.